On June 12, a French Court of Appeals upheld a decision ordering Twitter to divulge the identities of the authors of anti-Semitic tweets, which are illegal under French law. The original injunction, which was issued by a French lower court judge in January, also ordered Twitter to install a mechanism that would enable users to inform Twitter of illegal content more easily. While Twitter instituted a new mechanism for reporting illegal content, it appealed the order to disclose its users’ identities, citing potential privacy implications.
In a detailed analysis of the court’s order for the IAPP Privacy Perspectives blog, Chris Wolf of Hogan Lovells’ Washington, DC office and Winston Maxwell of the Paris office describe how the order, issued directly by the French court to California-based Twitter, which does not have a French establishment, implicates jurisdictional issues and calls into question the use of anonymity as a privacy shield to post hate speech online.

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Concerned that the prescriptive nature of the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation will impose a significant additional administrative burden on regulators, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published on its website 
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A meeting in London to discuss the contours of a use-based model as an approach to data protection is occurring today. Approximately thirty regulators, industry officials, advocates, and academics are participating, including Hogan Lovells partner Chris Wolf. The meeting is being hosted by the 